Reverence Makes Men Whole

Reverence Makes Men Whole

Immanuel Kant, one of the most rigorous minds in the history of philosophy, boiled the entire human project down to four questions: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope for? And what is man? Those questions have been rattling around in serious heads...
Starting Over Again

Starting Over Again

Fourteen years sober. That is not a small number. That is years of meetings, of honesty, of grinding through the days when the craving felt like a physical thing sitting on your chest. And then a rough enough season arrived that I convinced myself the only way through...
What Great Dads Do

What Great Dads Do

There is a man in your life who is getting it done as a dad every single day, and nobody is making a big deal about it. He is not going viral. He is not on a magazine cover. He is just in it, grinding through the ordinary heroics of fatherhood without applause or...
People Can Change

People Can Change

People can change. I know that because I am one of them, and my starting point was not exactly promising. I grew up in a trailer in the swampy part of Florida. My family ran a commercial blue crab fishing operation, and seafood was on the table most nights not because...
Forget Yourself and Work

Forget Yourself and Work

Twenty-five years ago I shipped out to Perth, Australia, with two suitcases and no idea what I was getting into. For two years I lived without music, television, movies, dating, or the internet. When I wrote letters home to my family, it took two weeks for them to...
Men and Mental Illness

Men and Mental Illness

One in five people has a diagnosable mental health disorder. Read that again slowly. That means in any room you walk into, twenty percent of the people present are dealing with something clinical, something that has a name, something that responds to treatment but...